He brings up exactly this kind of geoengineering solution, talks about the good parts and the bad parts and the side effects of the idea. Then he suggests even if we don't do it, maybe China (or someone else) will do it in 50 years and we won't be able to stop them at that point. And we won't even have a good idea on what our response should be if they are planning to do it, since we won't have any idea of the consequences for a particular method.
He concludes with the idea that whether geoengineering is a good idea or not, we should start thinking the various ways it could be accomplished now, rather than waiting, even if the purpose of thinking about it is to decide not to do it.
So does this guy representing the NZ RIAA do the work out of the NZ consulate in NYC, on the same floor as the "All Asian Massage?"
Also, aside from Bret and Jemaine, there's just Steve who should be worried about copyright infringement, since there's only 3 musicians from NZ. Although, it seems like Jemaine and Bret could use all the free publicity they can get.
O'ahu is about 50 miles across, which is about 157 miles in circumference. That would be a little over 78 miles per hour. On a bike. You must have ginormous leg muscles!
Binary addressing makes sense for RAM, since there's a certain number of addressing lines and it would be a waste for some of the lines to not be fully used. But for hard drives (and flash drives) with 512-byte sectors, it does not make more sense than any other addressing scheme. My hard drive has (thanks to fdisk -l), 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3,648 cylinders, which gives 8,225,280 bytes per cylinder or a total of 30,005,821,440 bytes. Those are the logical numbers, not the physical ones, but that only helps my point; that a given mass-storage device's capacity is an arbitrary number of 512-byte sectors. In this case, I paid for 30,000,000,000 bytes and I got that and a little extra. So anybody's lawsuit should only be able to extract money for the difference between the stated number of gigabytes and some integer times 512 bytes (but this is moot, since they always add extra like in the case above).
Furthermore, for the past two thousand years, the greek prefix giga has meant one billion. Just because we have binary computers doesn't mean we should change that for the purposes of lawsuits.
Lastly, you know damn well after reading the fine print on any mass storage device in the last 10 or 15 years that it says that when the listed capacity is x gigabytes, that means x * 1,000,000,000 bytes. And that fine print is on the outside of the box, so you know before you buy.
The National Institute of Standard's has suggested that for the useful binary numbers (2^10, 2^20, 2^30), we use the different prefixes KiB, MiB and GiB to show that they refer to the binary versions.
See
NIST's recommendation on this.
I'm happy to buy my ram with capacity listed in GiBs and my hard drives with capacity listed in GB or GiB, but let's not confuse the two prefixes.
I sure hope that they didn't enable disasters or the space monster might take the solar plant out. Anyway, it'll fall down in exactly 10 years, so what's the point?
CAJUN stands for Car-Audio-Jukebox-on-UNix but it works just as well in a home stereo environment. Runs great on a P133. You can control it remotely using a web browser. It uses mysql for the database and apache to serve up the web interface.
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The laws that will have to be passed in order to comply with this treaty will be abused, just like similar laws have been before:
http://computerssuck.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/acta/
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_climate_change.html
He brings up exactly this kind of geoengineering solution, talks about the good parts and the bad parts and the side effects of the idea. Then he suggests even if we don't do it, maybe China (or someone else) will do it in 50 years and we won't be able to stop them at that point. And we won't even have a good idea on what our response should be if they are planning to do it, since we won't have any idea of the consequences for a particular method.
He concludes with the idea that whether geoengineering is a good idea or not, we should start thinking the various ways it could be accomplished now, rather than waiting, even if the purpose of thinking about it is to decide not to do it.
So does this guy representing the NZ RIAA do the work out of the NZ consulate in NYC, on the same floor as the "All Asian Massage?"
Also, aside from Bret and Jemaine, there's just Steve who should be worried about copyright infringement, since there's only 3 musicians from NZ. Although, it seems like Jemaine and Bret could use all the free publicity they can get.
O'ahu is about 50 miles across, which is about 157 miles in circumference. That would be a little over 78 miles per hour. On a bike. You must have ginormous leg muscles!
Furthermore, for the past two thousand years, the greek prefix giga has meant one billion. Just because we have binary computers doesn't mean we should change that for the purposes of lawsuits.
Lastly, you know damn well after reading the fine print on any mass storage device in the last 10 or 15 years that it says that when the listed capacity is x gigabytes, that means x * 1,000,000,000 bytes. And that fine print is on the outside of the box, so you know before you buy.
The National Institute of Standard's has suggested that for the useful binary numbers (2^10, 2^20, 2^30), we use the different prefixes KiB, MiB and GiB to show that they refer to the binary versions. See NIST's recommendation on this.
I'm happy to buy my ram with capacity listed in GiBs and my hard drives with capacity listed in GB or GiB, but let's not confuse the two prefixes.
I sure hope that they didn't enable disasters or the space monster might take the solar plant out. Anyway, it'll fall down in exactly 10 years, so what's the point?
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
:)
<Family Guy>
Shouldn't that be "whom can you trust?"
</Family Guy>
CAJUN stands for Car-Audio-Jukebox-on-UNix but it works just as well in a home stereo environment. Runs great on a P133. You can control it remotely using a web browser. It uses mysql for the database and apache to serve up the web interface.
http://cajun.sf.net/
(I'm a developer on the project, shamelessly plugging it here)